Comment on Fallout 3: GOTY Edition is free to keep for the next 24 hours on the Epic Games Store

• Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are we pretending publishers not bothering putting their games on every storefront is the same as paying publishers to not put those games on competing storefronts?

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  • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The end result is the same for the consumer.

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    • Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Intention matters too.

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      • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not to me. I just want to play games. Already have multiple launchers. Doesn’t make a difference.

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The end result is the same for the consumer.

      It really isn’t.

      In one case a publisher is choosing to publish where the customers are. If consumers don’t like that service they are free to publish somewhere else

      In the other case a company is trying to force consumers to use their service, instead of providing a better service that they would want to use.

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      • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Either way you install a client and play a game. Already have a few so it doesn’t really matter.

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      • Rose@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Steam was literally forced on those who owned a physical copy of Half-Life and wanted to play it. The dominant position has nothing to do with the service offered by Steam. It was dominant when it barely had any features. GOG competing with it on features and in fact offering the bonus of DRM-free games hasn’t improved its market share of about 0.5%.

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• Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s not an exclusivity deal.

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  • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All the same to me. I have to install a specific client to play a game.

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